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Into the Purple Valley

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Released
  
January 1972

Length
  
37:06

Artist
  
Ry Cooder

Label
  
Reprise Records

Recorded
  
1971

Into the Purple Valley (1972)
  
Boomer's Story (1972)

Release date
  
January 1972

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Genres
  
Rock music, Roots rock, Americana, American folk music

Producers
  
Jim Dickinson, Van Dyke Parks, Lenny Waronker

Similar
  
Ry Cooder albums, Rock music albums

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Into the Purple Valley is the second studio album by roots rock musician Ry Cooder, released in 1972 (see 1972 in music). The album's front cover is listed number 12 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers.

Contents

Track listing

Side One

  1. "How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)" (Agnes "Sis" Cunningham) – 2:25
  2. "Billy the Kid" (Traditional; arranged by Ry Cooder) – 3:45
  3. "Money Honey" (Jesse Stone) – 3:28
  4. "FDR in Trinidad" (Fitz Maclean) – 3:01
  5. "Teardrops Will Fall" (Dickey Doo, Marion Smith) – 3:03
  6. "Denomination Blues" (George Washington Phillips) – 3:58

Side Two

  1. "On a Monday" (Lead Belly) – 2:52
  2. "Hey Porter" (Johnny Cash) – 4:34
  3. "Great Dream from Heaven" (Joseph Spence) – 1:53
  4. "Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" (Traditional; arranged by Ry Cooder) – 3:52
  5. "Vigilante Man" (Woody Guthrie) – 4:15

Personnel

  • Ry Cooder – guitar, bass, mandolin, vocals
  • Van Dyke Parks – keyboards
  • Gloria Jones – vocals
  • Claudia Lennear – vocals
  • George Bohanon – horns
  • John Craviotta – drums
  • Joe Lane Davis – horns
  • Jim Dickinson – piano
  • Chris Ethridge – bass
  • Milt Holland – percussion
  • Jerry Jumonville – saxophone
  • Fritz Richmond – bass
  • Donna Washburn – vocals
  • Donna Weiss – vocals
  • Ike Williams – horns

    • Songs

    1How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)2:28
    2Billy the Kid3:48
    3Money Honey3:30

    References

    Into the Purple Valley Wikipedia
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